'Dom Moraes', poet, novelist and columnist, is seen as a foundational figure in Indian English Literature. In 1958, at the age of twenty, he won the prestigious Hawthornden Prize for his first volume of verse, 'A Beginning', and went on to publish more than thirty books of prose and poetry. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for English in 1994. He has won awards for journalism and poetry in England, America, and India. He also wrote a large number of film scripts for BBC and ITV covering various countries such as India, Israel, Cuba, and Africa. Moraes passed away in 2004. Trained as an architect and city planner, Sarayu Srivatsa was the editor of 'Indian Architect and Builder Review'. Her book, 'Where the Streets Lead' (1997), won the JIIA Award. In 2002 she won the Picador-Outlook non-fiction writing award. Her first novel, 'The Last Pretence', was longlisted for the Man Asia Award. In 2016 her novel, 'If You Look For Me', 'I Am Not Here', was published in the UK, and was on the Guardian list for the Booker Prize.
